Dayhoff Soundtrack: "Telling Our Stories" The Days of the Baltimore Sun

Sunday, May 16, 2010

"Telling Our Stories" The Days of the Baltimore Sun

In the spring of 2009, The Baltimore Sun laid off about 60 people, including about a third of the newsroom staff.

This Web site records the bittersweet memories of many of those people. Some recall the pain of being fired; others the challenges, joys and spirit of newspaper work.

I particularly appreciated the following vignettes:

Behind the lens
The stories behind the pictures By Monica Lopossay I love sharing stories, but I'm not a writer. I usually tell stories with my photographs or orally. Nonetheless, here are a few stories dealing wit...

'You have a minute?'
'You have a minute?' By Danielle Bradley I never thought that I would be present for my own funeral. But it happened. April 29, 2009, in the middle of The Baltimore Sun newsroom. It was in the air. ...

Lopossay bio
Monica Lopossay Daughter of a truck driver and a mill worker, Monica Lopossay grew up in rural North Carolina. At 16, she raised enough money to buy her first camera by dressing in a 20-pound chicken ...

Behind the lens, page 2
> By Monica Lopossay I love sharing stories, but I'm not a writer. I usually tell stories with my photographs or orally. Nonetheless, here are a few stories dealing with things that happened behind m...

Behind the lens, page 3
> By Monica Lopossay I love sharing stories, but I'm not a writer. I usually tell stories with my photographs or orally. Nonetheless, here are a few stories dealing with things that happened behind m...

Behind the lens, page 4
> By Monica Lopossay I love sharing stories, but I'm not a writer. I usually tell stories with my photographs or orally. Nonetheless, here are a few stories dealing with things that happened behind m...